Although I have been very busy recently at work (I am working 14hr days all week) I have not forgotten about the problems you were having. I was thinking about emailing you Today to ask if you made progress. Anyways, I am very happy that you stuck with this read the docs and made some very good progress. I have no time to answer this in its entirety but I will try some now and some this weekend if I can.
On 8/10/07, joop gerritse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I read quite a few documents; thanks for pointing them out... And I > got "it" working... > > The most important point I learned is P_a_t_i_e_n_c_e! You really have to wait > a few minutes after having modified your smb.conf and restarted samba. And > you have plenty of time to reboot your client, I am not sure whether you > really need this, but anyway... it really takes quite some minutes before > even the most limited changes have trickled through a (not really big) > network. > If you are talking about network browsing. Yes this stuff takes a few minutes minimum as packets are broadcast from clients and master browsers listen for these broadcasts and create a list of the clients that send packets. > > In general, I started removing lines from the "inherited" smb.conf, all lines > of which I did not understand the purpose, and then restarting samba and the > client, and see what happened. > This is good. > I still have some questions, though... > > First of all: what is a domain name in Samba? I only saw a workgroup name as > the parameter. > Just to try, I changed it into something completely different, > and after some time I saw it appear as a workgroup. But then I could also > enter it as a domain name (on W98 stations, anyway), and I could really log > in to it. > Even though I now have a PDC on the domain LIEMERS-MUSEUM, and a BDC (without > a PDC) on the domain LIEMERS2MUSEUM, it seems to work. So my conjecture for > the moment is that the domain name equals the workgroup name. Right? > That is correct. > > Second: in my inherited smb.conf, I have a share [users]. I do not know what > it is for, but if I comment it out, the workgroup LIEMERS2MUSEUM vanishes > from the Workgroups in the network Environment. So I guess it serves some > purpose but which one? > You do not need a users share or any shares for a machine to show up in the browse lists. > > Third: <snip> Sorry that is too difficult to answer without taking a lot of time which I do not have at the moment.. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
